Month: June 2008

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Visuwords – a VisualThesaurus competitor

Here’s a quick update after my recent post – I found an on-line mapper showing the relationships between words, called Visuwords.

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This has similarities to VisualThesaurus but it goes a stage further because it seeks to show the relationships between words using colour and shape-coded connecting lines.  So what you get is a type of concept map.  The part-of-speech of each word is colour-coded as well.  You can’t build your own maps with it, but put in a word and you’ll see it build the relationships in front of your eyes.

A bonus: Unlike many of these on-line applications, it has an option to take advantage of a large screen.

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New and upgraded mind-mapping products

New on mind-mapping.org this week are three map-related tools: C-TOOLS, CharTr and Mind2Chart.  And two that have been updated – VUE and MindVisualizer.

C-TOOLS

C-TOOLS is a server / web based combination for making concept maps in an educational environment.  It even has an automated mark-students’-work-as-you-go capability.

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CharTr

It’s early in the life of this project but it is making progress.

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Mind2Chart

Not a mind mapping product, but an add-on for MindJet’s MindManager that can produce Gantt charts from a mind map with project management data included.

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MindVisualizer

MindVisualizer has been upgraded with multi-centred mind maps, and the association descriptions needed for proper concept maps.  Well worth a look.

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VUE

 I have been hoping for screenshots from VUE and now I’ve found some on the site.  VUE recently became VUE 2.0, by the way.  Aimed at education, this has interesting possibilities for presentations.

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That’s it for this week.

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It’s moving time again, folks

First it was Paul, now it’s Chuck.  Chuck Frey, author of one of the leading mind mapping blogs has moved to a new address: http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com

Well, I’m off to change his entry in on my list of the canonical mind map sites, MindMapSearch as well. 

Is this the start of a trend?  Where shall I go then? (No rude answers please!)

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Moving notice

No, it’s not me that’s moving.  Nor this blog. 

I just heard from that exciting producer and publisher of hand-drawn mindmaps, Paul Foreman, that his site has moved to http://www.mindmapinspiration.co.uk 

Although his site is not mentioned in mind-mapping.org because that focuses on articles and mind mapping software, it has a well-deserved place on my list of canonical mind map sites, MindMapSearch, which now points to the new location.

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Text2Mindmap, Thoughtograph, GNletting Mindmap

New in the Mind-mapping.org database this week:

Text2Mindmap

Using a simple indented outline-format text file (no section numbers, just tabs) this web-based application can build a simple tree-structured mind map.

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Thoughtograph

This is mind mapping software that shows a tightly-integrated outline on the left, with the map on the right.

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GNletting Mindmap

A basic concept mapping / mind mapping browser-based application.

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For details of these, see their entries at the main site.

Regards

Vic

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